There is also material about the next generation of webOS, codenamed “Eel,” which would have extended the card stack and panel design metaphors of webOS with more flexibility in arrangement of the panels. All that went by the wayside, of course, in the wake of HP’s decision to discontinue Palm operations altogether and focus back on more traditional products.

Google may ultimately be the loser here. Google has been pushing Android to the smart television front for years now and it has just lost LG—one of the most prominent television manufacturers in the world—as a key partner. Android has proven its ability to move to just about any device category from wearables to set top boxes to video game systems, but it has never really caught on in the television world. The big TV makers like LG and Samsung have their own proprietary systems and will push forward with them, marginalizing Android on large screens to a variety of smaller manufacturing partners.

It even comes with its own version of “Clippy”—a cute little bean-shaped bird named, well, Bean Bird who will help consumers set their TVs’ features up.

It’s a little funny to see a phone and tablet operating system move to a TV with no extant phones or tablets out there—and LG seems content to keep making Android phone and tablet hardware itself. But I suppose TVs are a different market altogether, and you don’t necessarily have to have the same OS on both classes of device to use them with each other.